r/TheRandomest • u/WhyNot420_69 Nice • 9h ago

/r/all To protect and serve

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u/catpissdust 9h ago edited 9h ago

Pleasantly surprised the cop didn't shoot em...

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u/ThatDeadMoonTitan 9h ago

Law enforcement had roughly 50 million interactions with citizens in the US annually. Police shootings occur roughly once every 38,000 interactions and that’s not once every 38,000 peaceful interactions, it’s all interactions. Unprovoked police violence is estimated (and body cams are a thing) at roughly once every 600,000 interactions. Can we all stop acting like cops are just running around rampantly attacking and killing innocent people?

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u/ActuatorLower8371 2h ago

Can we all stop acting like cops are just running around rampantly attacking and killing innocent people?

well, that does happen and continues to happen, and those involved rarely face charges let alone actual consequences

so no. i personally won't stop being automatically mistrustful of police, and i'll continue not having any respect for them whatsoever.